I was looking around this site http://hem.passagen.se/thbo/evo_vii.html and I decided to e-mail the owner. I asked him some questions about it and thought I'd share. Here is the e-mail:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Hi Ryan and thanks for your feed back. I'm glad you liked my site even
> though it's not that fancy, I've tried to put more energy on the
>contents
> instead of fancy looks.
>
> I'll try to answer your questions below:
>
>
> >Hi. I was checking out your web site. Some great pics of the Evo.
>You
> >are soooo lucky to have one. I live in the US so we have to wait until
> >January to get one...and its supposed to be priced around $30,000 USD,
>and
> >have around 250-260HP, not 276.
> >
> >If you don't mind, could you answer some of my questions?
> >
> >When did you get it?
>
> I've had it for about eight weeks now.
>
> >How much did it cost?
>
> I paid about ?42,000 for it including all taxes and stuff so I guess
>that will be around $40,000?
>
>
> >How many miles do you have on it?
>
> Not many at all to be honest, it's actually garaged for the winter and
>I'm
> also still waiting for the German papers. This is since the VII is not
> imported officially to Sweden so I had to buy it from Germany and it
>also
> needed to be registered there locally. I expect the papers to arrive
>this
> week. So far I've done about 300km or 190 miles so I couldn't say much
>more
> than that it seams very quick both acceleration, breaking, steering and
> handling wise.
>
> >Any mechanical problems yet?
>
> Not from 190 miles :-)
>
> >Any complaints design and/or performance wise?
>
> A 6 speed gear box should have been nice since there is a pretty big gap
> between 4:th and 5:th and 5:th feels like an overdrive. This was not the
> fact on the VI but it was less comfortable in high speeds due to higher
> engine rpm instead.
>
> >Have you done any modifications?
>
> Not yet but I plan for a stainless 3" exhaust, a sports air filter and
>some
> kind of chip or ECU modification.
>
> >Have you ran it at a track yet (do you have 1/4 mile and 0-60 times?)
>
> Nothing like that as of yet but 0-60 should be close to 5 sec with a
>good
> start.
>
> >Have you put it on a dyno, to determine actual HP (many magazines claim
> >that the HP is really 300+ to keep Japanese regulators happy)
> >
>
> I've heard that too and I saw a complete stock VI putting out just above
> 300hp in engine power last year here in Sweden.
>
> Regarding the lower hp spec for the US market I could imagine that it
>has to
> do with octane rating of your fuel being lower than what we get here. We
>can
> get 98 octane fuel and in Japan they have 100 octane available. This is
> crucial on a high performance turbo engine and is very much affecting
>the
> amount of boost you could run. Maybe they have lowered the boost
>slightly
> for the US spec cars to allow lower octane fuel to be used?
>
> /Thomas
>
>
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That's it....... I want a yellow one

 

Regarding his octane comments, don't japan and europe use a different rating system than ours??
I would imagine out lowing rating is more likely due to strict emissions, primarily making it 50 state legal (thanks a lot cali )

 

I thought the octane rating for universal..
with **** gas we get here in CA... maybe a jdm evo7 should make just
under 300 crank hp??

 

what a champ...
he's only driven 190 miles.. how could he resist the temptation of leaving it in his garage.. its goood to see he is still the master of his domain.
heck he's probably spent more time on his website then driving the car...